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C A L L F O R P A P E R S
1ST INT. WORKSHOP ON ENGINEERING SERVICE COMPOSITIONS (WESC'05)
In conjunction with the 3rd Int. Conference on
Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2005)
http://www.icsoc.org/
December 12, 2005
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
WESC Workshop Website
http://fresco-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wesc05/
Paper Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2005
SYNOPSIS
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The emerging paradigm of service-oriented computing (SOC) introduces
ground-breaking concepts for distributed- and e-business processing
that are radically changing the way software applications are
designed, architected, delivered and consumed. Services, which
constitute the heart of SOC, are autonomous platform-independent
computational elements that can be described, published, discovered
and accessed over the Web using standard protocols. Service-oriented
architectures (SOA) leverage the foundational capabilities of
computational service models to provide technological as well as
conceptual frameworks for a new class of cooperative business
applications: agile networks of collaborating business applications
distributed within and across organisational boundaries.
Consequently, SOA not only includes software technologies to
aggregate atomic services into composite services (a.k.a. service
composition) but also the software engineering methodology to turn
composite services into cooperative business applications (a.k.a.
service engineering).
In fact, service composition and software engineering are highly
interrelated. Service composition not only developed towards the
major software technology approach for composing multiple
coarse-grained applications over the Web but also originated
pioneering concepts such as orchestration and choreography. Such
concepts introduce significantly different ways of managing business
connectivity, thus making a strong impact on application semantics
and vice versa. In order to guarantee a certain quality level of
SOA-based cooperative business applications with respect to
functional and non-functional requirements, software engineers have
to take into account the impacts of service composition models. In
the emerging discipline of service engineering, that generally
benefits from former research on component- and aspect-oriented
software engineering methodologies, there are already promising
results on novel conceptual and technological tools to support the
development processes of cooperative business applications. However,
such tools need to be increasingly aligned with service composition
technology.
Still, joint approaches on engineering service compositions face
several open problems and challenges. Concerning the technology side
there is still neither an agreement on service composition models
and languages nor on their scope of application; let alone
experiences on mission critical operation. As regards methodology ,
reference architectures of service-oriented cooperative information
systems taking into account particularities of the service
composition lifecycles are just at the beginning. This is just to
name a few of the challenges.
GOAL
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Accordingly, the workshop is intended to bring together experts from
service composition technology and service engineering methodology;
researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. It is
meant to foster discussions about problems and challenges that
particularly arise during the practical combination of both fields
of expertise for the realisation of service-based, cooperative
business information systems.
TOPICS
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WESC'05 welcomes research submissions on all topics related to
engineering service compositions, including but not limited to those
listed below:
Models for composing software applications from services
- Models and languages for composition, coordination and
aggregation of application software services
- Programming abstractions for service composition
- High-level abstractions for service composition
(workflows, rules, policies...)
- Scope and applicability of service composition standards
(e.g. BPEL, WSCI) w.r.t. software composition
- ...
Themes/paradigms for conceptualising service compositions
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) as composition framework
- Service composition as a form of programming in the large
- Software services as building blocks for componentware and
component-oriented software engineering
- Service composition for product line software e.g. in an
application service provision (ASP) context
- Service composition as a link between software engineering
and enterprise application integration (EAI)
- Service composition in agent-based software engineering
- ...
Methodology for engineering service compositions
- Reference architectures for composite service-based applications
- Lifecycle models for service composition
- Impacts of service composition on requirement engineering
- Methods for design and analysis of service compositions
- Dependability of service compositions
- Quality models and measures for service compositions
- Methods for validation and verification of service compositions
- Refactorisation of service compositions
- ...
Technology for developing/implementing service compositions
- Pattern techniques and service composition patterns
- Framework architectures for service composition
- Aspect-oriented composition of software services
- Applying/adopting UML and MDA for service composition
- Testing of service compositions
- CASE-tools for service composition
- Industrial case studies
- ...
WORKSHOP FORMAT
===============
The workshop will be held on a single day, consisting of a keynote
speech*, peer-reviewed paper presentations and a closing panel.
Keynote and panel will be held jointly with the workshop on Design
of Service-oriented Applications.
* To be announced
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished
research papers. Papers should be written in English and must not
exceed 8 pages strictly following Springer's LNCS style
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) including all text,
references, appendices, and figures.
Prospective authors are supposed to submit full papers not later than
**** September 30th, 2005 ****
electronically to: http://vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/wesc05/
PDF format is preferred but portable Postscript format is also
acceptable.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the
international program-committee based on originality, significance,
technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers
will be distributed electronically to all participants before the
workshop. They will also be included in the workshop proceedings and
formally published as IBM research report.
Authors of accepted papers are supposed to participate in the
workshop. Publication is subject to receipt of a participation
confirmation via e-mail to: wesc05@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
*** before September 30th, 2005 ****
which confirmes that at least one author is going to attend the WS
in case of paper acceptance. Workshop attendees are not required but
are, of course, encouraged to register for the core ICSOC conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper Submission & Participation
Confirmation Due: September 30th, 2005
* Notification of Acceptance: October 21st, 2005
* Camera-Ready Copy Due: November 4th, 2005
* Workshop: December 12th, 2005
PROGRAM COMMITTEE*
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M. Aiello (University of Trento, Italy)
B. Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia)
F. Casati (HP Palo Alto, USA)
A. Colyer (IBM Hursley, UK)
F. Cubera (IBM Watson, USA)
V. D'andrea (University of Trento, Italy)
E. Deelman (ISI, USA)
K. Duddy (DSTC, Australia)
S. Dustdar (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
W. Emmerich (University College London, UK)
G. Feuerlicht (Technical University of Sydney, Australia)
W. Gentsch (Sun, Germany)
P. Goldsack (HP Bristol, UK)
M. Hauswirth (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
J. Hernandez (University of Extremadura, Spain)
W. Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany)
F. Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
S. McIlraith (Stanford University, USA)
M. Mecella (University of Rome, Italy)
N. Medvidovic (University of Southern California, USA)
G. Ortiz (University of Extremadura, Spain)
M. Papazoglou (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
P. Plebani (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
G. Piccinelli (University College London, UK)
T. Risse (Fraunhofer Society, Germany)
C. Roland (University of Paris, France)
S. Shrivastava (University of Newcastle, UK)
C. Szyperski (Microsoft Research, USA)
S. Tai (IBM Watson, USA)
M. Weske (HPI at University of Potsdam, Germany)
A. Wolf (University of Boulder, USA)
J. Yang (Macuquarie University, Australia)
C. Zirpins (University of Hamburg, Germany)
*Candidates, confirmation pending
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Emmerich
University College London, UK
Email: w.emmerich@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Prof. Dr. Winfried Lamersdorf
University of Hamburg, Germany
Email: lamersdorf@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Guadalupe Ortiz
University of Extremadura, Spain
Email: gobellot@unex.es
Christian Zirpins
University of Hamburg, Germany
Email: zirpins@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
If you have any further queries please do not hesitate to send an
e-mail to the workshop contact:
wesc05@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING YOU ALL AT WESC/ICSOC IN AMSTERDAM!
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